Thank you Cittasanto. I will take some time to think on your response.

Hi everyone, thank you for the insightful responses. The difficult takes time — the impossible takes longer. Hello Bhante... is it correct to understand by this statement that the difficult is preferable to the impossible? The teaching helps me to stop trying to relieve suffering in the wrong way, b...

Hi polarbuddha101, thank you for the response. Very nicely put.

polarbuddha101 wrote:searching for answers about the temporal duration of the universe is stupid and a waste of time.

Although the academic community would be very upset to hear this… but I suppose the onus is on them.

Hello everyone, I am writing this post to gain some insight into the teaching of “samsara without discoverable beginning.” I have tried searching the forum for a direct discussion on this subject but have not found one. If there is something I have overlooked please point me in the right direction. ...

Amanké Dionti by Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze

Senegalese vocals and kora merged with a German jazz trumpeter.... Yes Please!!

Dhammanando... I hope they were helpful. :D I scarcely followed world news at all in 2008. This is a very enviable position in so many ways. Often time’s world news and politics seem nothing more than the world’s biggest recurring soap opera… with the same themes, characters, and plot lines. Each ti...

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome. (I am curious as to how the Buddha would have viewed modern finance in the context of Right Livelihood given what we all now know post 2008) What is it that everyone (except me, it seems) now knows about modern finance post-2008? Dhammanando... I am afraid th...

Hello Everyone. It is a pleasure to finally introduce myself. I have been a casual visitor to DhammaWheel for some time now and learned a great deal from the myriad discussions on this forum. The hope now is that through active participation there will be much more wisdom to be had. As a brief intro...